President Biden held a roughly hour-long press conference and took multiple questions from reporters Thursday evening as he works to quell concerns over his mental fitness and age ahead of the presidential election in November. “I’m determined on running,” Biden declared Thursday evening in his solo press conference that lasted roughly 58 minutes.
The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Jim Himes, called on President Biden to suspend his 2024 re-election campaign, just moments after the president finished his highly anticipated press conference. Biden participated in a press conference with reporters at the end of the NATO summit in Washington D.C. on Thursday night.
President Biden faces a growing number of calls to step aside from the 2024 race for the White House, leading many Americans to question what the Democratic Party’s nomination process will look like if he stays in the race or ultimately allows for the selection of a new candidate.Biden has stated several times since his damaging debate performance last month he will not drop out of the race.
Years ago, a veteran, respected journalist called me out on a piece of news copy I wrote.My sin: Rather than indicating that someone said something, I wrote that they believed something.My colleague corrected me.REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: BACKLASH IN THE HALLS OF CONGRESS”We know what they say. But we can’t know what they believe,” counseled my friend.I changed the copy.No journalist is clairvoyant.
Dave Portnoy, the founder of Barstool Sports, mocked actor George Clooney for waiting until three weeks after his star-studded fundraiser in which he raised millions of dollars for President Biden to acknowledge he’s “a vegetable.””George Clooney, what a f—— hero this guy is, huh? Comes forward today — now, this guy threw a fundraiser, raised tens of millions, co-chair for Biden, three weeks ago.
The GOP-led House Oversight Committee has subpoenaed three senior White House aides, demanding that they sit for depositions concerning President Biden’s mental state.Fox News confirmed that the subpoena includes first lady Jill Biden’s top aide, Anthony Bernal, deputy chief of staff Annie Tomasini and senior adviser Ashley Williams.In a press release, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., called for accountability within the White House.
The House of Representatives approved a bill on Wednesday, aimed at ensuring only American citizens vote in federal elections.After debating the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act on the House floor, which was pushed by House speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, was passed by a final vote of 221-198.Five Democrats voted in favor of the measure, including Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas; Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas; Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine; Rep.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., says he’s still backing Joe Biden after reportedly signaling to Democrat donors that he is open to replacing the president at the top of the 2024 ticket.Axios, citing three sources, reported that since Biden’s debate performance late last month, Schumer has been listening to donors’ ideas and suggestions that the best way for the party to move forward and debate former President Trump is removing Biden.
The City of Sacramento, California’s legal department threatened to fine a popular retail store for public nuisance over numerous calls to police after thieves stole from its Land Park location multiple times, according to a report.
The White House was pressed Tuesday about whom the Pentagon would contact if a nuclear missile were fired toward the U.S. after 8 p.m., which is when President Biden has said he needs to call it a day.Last week, Biden told Democratic governors during a private meeting at the White House that he would stop scheduling events after 8 p.m. so he can get more sleep, according to a report by The New York Times.
Three GOP-led states are asking the Supreme Court for emergency intervention to temporarily block the implementation of President Biden’s latest effort to provide a student loan handout to millions of borrowers.The time-sensitive appeal was sent to Justice Neil Gorsuch, who could make the decision himself or ask his colleagues to weigh in.Most likely, the court will ask the government to file a response brief, and an order from the court could be issued in the days or weeks that follow.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Most Democrats are still remaining mum on whether President Biden is fit to serve out the rest of his term amid growing concerns over his mental competency.Various lawmakers on Capitol Hill refused to respond when asked by Fox News Digital whether Biden should remain in office, while others expressed confidence in his abilities now and in the future.Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., and representatives Mark Takano, D-Calif.; Steny Hoyer, D-Md.; Adam Schiff, D-Calif.
Three former advisers to President Obama took aim at President Biden Tuesday as longstanding rumors of tension between the two men’s camps continue to linger.
The White House and the media have been deceiving the public about the president’s mental decline.
HOOKSETT, N.H. – Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, who’s a top surrogate for President Biden’s re-election campaign, is taking aim at the small but growing number of Democrats urging the president to end his re-election bid. “It doesn’t help. Let’s be candid here,” Newsom said as he spoke with reporters during a stop Monday in New Hampshire, the third swing state that the governor has campaigned in on behalf of Biden since Thursday.
White House officials defended President Biden’s health and denied he was ever treated for Parkinson’s disease, despite a meeting between an expert on the disease and the president’s physician earlier this year.
The Biden administration on Monday rejected claims from Congress and homebuilder groups that new energy efficiency standards for home construction will make a bad economic situation even worse.In late May, the Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) and Department of Agriculture enacted updated energy efficiency standards for new home construction that reflect 2021 International Energy Efficiency Conservation Code (IECC) parameters for federally-financed homes.
The Democratic Party is in the midst of coping with echoing calls for President Biden to bow out of the presidential race over concerns that his mental acuity has slipped and that he’s unable to serve as president for another four years if he wins re-election. As the party looks for potential replacements if Biden does in fact decide to conclude his political career, Vice President Harris sits atop the list of likely successors.
A sixth House Democrat is now asking President Biden to duck out of the 2024 White House race and accusing his campaign of dismissing concerns from fellow members of his party.Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, told CNN host Jake Tapper point-blank on Monday afternoon that he believes the 81-year-old president is not the best candidate to beat former President Trump in November.”I think he should step aside.
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, plans to bring up options under the 25th Amendment in terms of President Biden’s fitness during a meeting with House Republicans on Tuesday.Roy told Fox News he believes Republicans need to have a position on where they stand regarding Biden’s competence.Section 4 of the 25th Amendment provides a series of steps for removing a president from office if he or she becomes incapacitated.
Democrats met behind closed doors Sunday as pressure mounted on President Biden to drop out of the race.House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., held a virtual meeting with ranking Democrats on House panels Sunday afternoon.Fox News learned that multiple Democrats on House committees expressed concerns about the viability of Biden continuing to run for re-election against former President Trump.
Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem deleted two state-affiliated social media accounts without explanation over the 4th of July weekend, local media reports and a review of the accounts show. Noem’s official @govkristinoem X account and her Gov. Noem Facebook account have both gone dark, a review of the now-defunct pages shows.
The White House announced on Sunday that Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff recently tested positive for COVID-19. In a statement, the office of the Second Gentleman noted that Emhoff tested positive on Saturday “after experiencing mild symptoms.””He is fully vaccinated and three times boosted,” the statement read. “He is currently asymptomatic, continuing to work remotely, and remaining away from others at home.
President Biden, reeling from a disastrous debate performance and calls to step aside, addressed a Black church service in Pennsylvania on Sunday, acknowledging the “world’s looking to America.”Speaking from a stage at Mount Airy Church of God in Christ in northwest Philadelphia, the 81-year-old Biden laughed off concerns about his age, joking, “I know I look 40” but “I’ve been doing this a long time.
Hawaii Gov. Josh Green, a Democrat, said Saturday that President Biden could make a decision within days on whether he stays in the presidential election race to seek a second term.This comes after Green participated in a recent meeting with Biden and nearly two dozen fellow Democrat governors amid concerns about the president’s re-election campaign, following the president’s shaky debate performance last month against former President Donald Trump.
President Biden claimed Thursday he’s been “in and out of battles” while addressing an audience of military service members and their families at Thursday’s White House Fourth of July Barbecue. “And by the way, I’ve been all over the world with you.
The federal judge presiding over former President Trump’s Florida case has paused several court deadlines to consider presidential immunity. Trump’s legal team presented a motion Friday seeking “a partial stay of further proceedings” in the case brought by special counsel Jack Smith “until President Trump’s motions based on Presidential immunity and the Appointments and Appropriations Clauses are resolved.”U.S.
Top Democratic congressional leaders are planning to hold a meeting to discuss President Biden’s fledgling re-election campaign, even as Biden himself has struck a defiant tone amid calls to drop out of the race.House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., is leading a virtual meeting with top Democrats on Sunday, with leaders expected to discuss the path forward for Biden’s campaign, according to an NBC News report that has been confirmed by Fox News.
A top neurologist at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center met with President Biden’s physician at the White House earlier this year, White House records show.Dr. Kevin Cannard, a Parkinson’s disease expert, met with Dr. Kevin O’Connor and two others at the White House residence clinic on Jan. 17, records first reported by the New York Post show.
President Biden participated in his first sit-down interview since his disastrous debate performance last week. He spoke on Friday to ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, commenting on his “bad episode,” when it occurred to him he was performing poorly at the debate and dodging repeated questions about taking a neurological test.